Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media report them inadequately. We blog here because our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, New York, Madrid, London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening and why. This ongoing war is killing us.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

13-Mar-13: How far away is the next terrorist atrocity? As far as the next security slip-up by Israel, Heaven forbid

We read far too many
ill-informed news reports suggesting that the seriously deadly terrorism of the
Arafat War (the mis-named Second Intifada) are behind us and that this is due
to a pragmatic desire by the competing Palestinian Arab regimes to calm things
down, at least for now.

These claims are untrue and
unfounded. They represent wishful thinking at best; they are probably better
described as cynical and knowing manipulation of public opinion. They have been
untrue at virtually every moment of the past 13 years, if not longer. Terrorism subsides when its agents are intercepted and defeated. This is a function of vigilence - and good fortune.

The Jerusalem Post reported in the last hour on
a warning by the Shabak, based on
intelligence that comes partly from the questioning of security suspects
arrested days before planning to carry out terrorist actions, that the Minister
of the Interior in the Hamas regime version of the Palestinian Arab government, Fathi Hammad, is the key figure behind plans for agents of terrorism to carry out atrocities against Israeli civilians. It notes
that Hammad "has often called out for the continuation of terror
attacks in Israel".

The Shabak says Hammad is busily
activating terrorist members of a group called 'Defenders of Al Aqsa', which he
was instrumental in setting up, to execute those terrorist actions. They come
principally from the villages of Ras Karkar and Siluad in the Binyamin region
of the West Bank.

The terrorists "received concrete
instructions to kidnap a soldier, take his ID and cell phone for negotiations,
and then kill and bury him at a hideout," the report said. Prior to their
arrest, the terrorists sent a message to Gaza saying they were ready to act
within days. The arrest prevented impending terror attacks, the Shin Bet added.

Efforts by Hamas, whose power base is
in Gaza, to establish and activate terrorist cells in the West Bank where
Fatah/PLO/Palestinian Authority is in nominal control, include recruiting
action-hungry young Palestinian Arab recruits

to create and fire rockets at Israel
from the West Bank, to kidnap and kill a soldier, and prepare suicide bombings,
the Shin Bet [Israel Security Agency] said Wednesday. On the surface, the
four-month truce between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding well since the
cessation of last year's eight day conflict, but behind the scenes, senior
Hamas officials in Gaza are increasing their efforts to carry out deadly
attacks on Israelis, the Shin Bet added.

The Shabak statement goes on to refer
to a key factor about which most informed analysts know but choose to ignore
for political reasons:

"the extent of the involvement by senior Hamas
members in setting up terror attacks against targets in the West Bank and
Israel, despite their commitments to Egypt to uphold a truce" with Israel.

Care to know a little more about this
Hammad and his passions?:

When his own three-year
old daughter became ill, she was sent to medical treatment to Barzilai Hospital in
Ashkelon, the southern Israeli city that has come under regular bombardment
from Hamas-controlled Gaza. She was subsequently sent toJordan for follow-on treatment, a move that was
approved by Israel's defense ministerEhud Barakand by the IDF [source]

He is a proponent of
the use of human shields. Speaking in February 2008 [captured on video here] he addressed a Gaza rally
with this exhortation: "For the Palestinian people, death has
become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on
this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen (holy fighters)
and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the
children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist
bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: 'We desire
death like you desire life.'"

A Gazan charity called
Waad, which was headed by Hamad, offered a $1.4 million bounty in November 2009
to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducted an Israeli soldier. This was the first time money had been
offered as an incentive [source]

"When we seek the
help of our Arab brothers, we are not seeking their help in order to eat, to
live, to drink, to dress, or to live a life of luxury. No. When we seek their
help, it is in order to continue to wage Jihad... Allah be praised, we all
have Arab roots, and every Palestinian, in Gaza and throughout Palestine, can
prove his Arab roots - whether from Saudi Arabia, from Yemen, or anywhere. We
have blood ties. So where is your affection and mercy? ...Personally, half my
family is Egyptian. We are all like that. More than 30 families in the Gaza
Strip are called Al-Masri ["Egyptian"]. Brothers, half of the
Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the
Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian!
They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from
Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are
a part of you. Allah Akbar. All praise to Allah. Allah Akbar. How can you
keep silent, oh Muslims, when the people of Gaza are dying?"

Al-Masri happens to be the name of the clan from which the religious fanatic who exploded in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in August 2001 came.

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Many people lack a factual understanding of events in our region because the media often report them inadequately. Our daughter Malki, murdered at the age of 15 in a restaurant massacre in Jerusalem, was a victim of jihadist hatred and barbarism. For jihadism and terrorism to end in Israel, in New York, in Madrid, in London and everywhere else, people first need to understand the scale on which it is happening. This ongoing war is killing us.